Laundry-hanging rod



(No Model.) W. S- OOBURN. 2 sheets-sheet .1;

LAUNDRY HANGING ROD. No. 519,017. 5 Patented May 1,1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER S. COBURN, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAUNDRY-HANGING ROD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,017, dated May 1,18Application filed December 19, 1892. Serial No. 455,694. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER S. OoBURN, of Cambridge, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Laundry-Hanging Rods, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My inventionrelates to a device for hanging collars, cults, or othersmall articles, in a drying-room, and consists in arranging upon a rod,of convenient length and size, a series of loops and hooks, in such amanner that when the articles are placed upon the hooks, a singlemovement will cause all of the hooks to move toward the loops, and thussecurely lock all of the articles on; another movement, in an oppositedirection, will cause all of the articles to drop from the hooks.

The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure1 is a view in perspective, showing the under side of one of my hangingrods, and the arrangement of -the hooks and loops. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation, showing the hooks and their relation to the loops, when thedevice is ready to have the articles placed upon the hooks. Fig. 3 showsthe device as it appears when the articles are locked on to the hooks.Fig. 4 shows the device as it appears after the hooks have been drawnthrough the rear loops for the purpose of dropping the articles.

In the drawings I have shown but a part of one of my hanging rods, asthe length is immaterial, and any number of sets of hooks and loops maybe used.

In all ofthe figures, A represents a loop bar, made of any suitablematerial, and provided with a sliding or hook bar B. The main bar hasfirmly attached to it a series of loops of wire 0, formed substantiallyas shown, their exact shape and construction not being essential to theworking of the device.

The sliding or hook bar B is made in such a manner that it may be movedlongitudinally in the grooves of the loop bar A, and is provided with anumber of hooks D cZD' d as shown; these hooks D d, &c.,may have theends that are driven into the rod B flattened or squared, so that theywill not turn,

an 1 thus get their points d d, due, out of place.

My device for moving the sliding or hook bar B and for holding it inposition is shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, and consists in a lever L, whichis connected at its end to a standard P, this standard P is rigidlyattached to the sliding or hook bar B, and plays 1n a slot in the bar A,as indicated by dotted lines.

M is a link, one end of which engages with the lever L at T, and theother end is connected to a suitable fastening N, which is attached tothe bar A.

From the above it may be seen that by swinging the lever L to the rightor the left, an opposite movement is given to the sllding bar B, andthat when the lever L 1s thrown over to a horizontal position, either tothe right or to the left, it looks the sliding or hook bar B in itsposition.

To use my device, I proceed as follows: The lever L is turned up, asshown in Fig. 2, that is, the hooks D d are away from the loops (3-0,for instance) to be dried and placed upon the hooks; now the lever L isturned to the left; this carries all the hooks D up to the loops G, asshown in Fig. 3, and the articles to be dr1ed are all hooked on, and thewhole placed 1n the drier. When the drying has been accomplished, thedevice is taken from the drier, and held over atable or bench and thelever L is turned to the right. This causes the slide B and all of thehooks D d to go to the left; that is, the hooks D d, &c., are passedbackward through their rear loops, and all of the articles on the hooksare pushed off, and drop onto the table or bench, or in fact, to anyreceptacle provided for them.

I claim In a laundry hanging rod the combination of a rod having aseries of loops extending beyond and including a second rod (sliding inrelation to the first rod) having hooks adapted to hold articlessuspended upon them, and to pass forwardor backward bodily through thesaid loops of the first rod; with the sliding rod having hookssubstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 100 WALTER S. OOBURN.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, WILLIAM EDSON.

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